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April 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Twitter has finally answered a big piece of the long running question of h...

In the wake of an oil rig explosion that led to a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, NASA has released a pair of striking pictures depicting the disaster. Along with Twitter, NASA has been the go-to source of late when it comes to finding photos of...

Just in time for WordPress's flagship Wordcamp event, Salesforce is providing users of the popular blogging platform with a time-saving plugin: WordPress-to-lead for Salesforce CRM. WordPress-to-Lead provides small businesses that use WordPress as th...

The Mozilla team is hard at work on the next update to Firefox, which will include a fully redesigned Add-ons Manager. Previously, the Add-ons Manager operated in its own separate window apart from the rest of the browser. The new Add-ons Manager ope...

In early December, Apple acquired streaming music service Lala. Just five months later, Lala is shutting its doors. The Apple-owned service is no longer accepting new users and, according to a message on its website, come May 31 it will cease operati...

If you pre-ordered an iPad 3G, check your e-mail; you should have received a shipping notice from Apple informing you that your device is already on its way. I received my shipping notification yesterday afternoon and a follow-up e-mail from Apple th...

Josh Williams, the grinning, long-haired CEO of the rapidly growing geo-social application Gowalla, is the kind of guy who wears flower shirts and cowboy boots under a sports jacket when he goes to New York for meetings. Outdoorsy and family-oriented...

Next-generation iPhone craziness, Hugo Chavez getting hip to Twitter, Steve Jobs's final words on Flash (we think) and scores and scores of acquisitions -- this week was one eclectic collection of days. If you missed anything during this long trek to...

Now that Avatar is the biggest movie ever worldwide and DVD and Blu-ray sales are through the roof, 3D technology is helping fuel an industry resurgence. Not everyone is a fan, however. Movie critic Roger Ebert argues that, "Hollywood's current crazy...

Now that Tweetie 2 is set to become the free and official Twitter app for iPhone, iPhone app makers have been forced to step up their game. HootSuite -- maker of business-friendly Twitter apps -- is doing just that, adding language translation, Faceb...

Browser maker Opera announced today that it has acquired web e-mail service FastMail.fm. In a statement, Opera explained that it will use FastMail to "expand its current messaging product portfolio" across "a wide range of devices." Opera has include...

We here at Mashable have put in another grueling week of watching YouTube videos -- so you don't have to -- with the aim of bringing you the cream of the digital crop (no FarmVille puns intended). While we saw everything from a faux commercial for th...

Twitter's very real-time functionality is obviously the main attraction of the service. But it can also be a downside -- if you want to send a tweet at a specific time, you usually have to be poised over a keyboard or phone. But there are some great ...

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

As an early adopter brand, Starbucks has reaped the rewards of social media innovation. Today the company is furthering those efforts with a Facebook application for customers to access and manage their Starbucks cards. The application will go live a...

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The Federal Trade Commission has informed women's retailer Ann Taylor that it will not take action against the company for incidents related to blogger coverage of an event hosted by its LOFT brand in January. This is the first public investigation i...

Just weeks after launching an official BlackBerry app and acquiring Tweetie (which will become Twitter for iPhone), Twitter is out with another mobile application built in-house, this time for Google Android. The app is available immediately in the A...

Last week, Facebook unveiled its universal "like" button, furthering its goal of world domination in the process. Thus, it was inevitable that someone, somewhere would develop the universal "dislike" button. OpenDislike.org, which is powered by Germa...

Twitter has a two-pronged approach to give media companies the ability to create dynamic interfaces that filter and curate tweets in new ways. One is to showcase great examples of Twitter implementations on its Twitter Media blog, and the other is to...

Much can be said about the Twitter development community. Since day one, they have been building functionality on top of Twitter's minimal web features to better the overall Twitter experience. Initially we saw a frenzy of desktop and browser-based a...

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